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Acute mesenteric ischemia may prove to be an elusive diagnosis. This is made more complex given the extensive differential diagnosis of acute abdominal pain. Timely diagnosis of mesenteric ischemia requires a high index of suspicion. If left untreated, mortality is 100%.
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Black JH III, Holscher CM. Acute mesenteric vascular occlusion. In: McIntyre Jr RC, Schulick RD, editors. Surgical decision making. 6th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2020. p. 174–6.
Eslami MH. Acute mesenteric ischemia. In: Cameron JL, Cameron AM, editors. Current surgical therapy. 12th ed. Philadelphia: Elsevier; 2017. p. 1071–9.
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Spanos, C.P. (2021). Acute Mesenteric Ischemia. In: Acute Surgical Topics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68700-7_17
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